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happy holidays for you just joining in on lucy confident of and you're watching our team well christmas bells may be ringing across europe but there melody count the boom of austerity as biting cuts have reached as far as the inner sanctum of the catholic church the vatican pope benedict held a somewhat spartan out of all mass in st paul's celica in rome the district budget the traditional nativities scene outside the cathedral this year cost the vatican on modest twenty two thousand euros some ten times less than last year's budget with a shortfall topped up by a donation as artie's peter all for found out all across europe leaders are wishing their christmas money worries would simply disappear. and since it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly jolly gent it is busiest time of the year but santa has taken

a little bit of time out from clear delivering presents to the boys and girls to join me here in central berlin high something. well if not come on the sled that i say no no it's just a segway it's more comfortable you know keeping within the twenty first century there and you've got some letters from the boys and girls that you're going to share with us something here ok all right now this one has come from a little boy in greece he says exactly what he wants for christmas and for twenty thirteen. dear santa for christmas i would really like a fiscal policy which would see my country's debt be reducing one hundred twenty four percent of our annual output from twenty twenty i know that this is a big ask but it will stop the international monetary fund getting in from more annoyed with us although we didn't make the whole thirty billion euros worth of savings we promised just recently we did try very hard to. dimitri said marise.

well who else has been writing to you oh well this one has come from somebody not too far away from where we are right now this is come from a little girl and perlin with her christmas wishes for twenty thirty. dear santa thank you for the positive economic growth i asked for last year it has been very helpful this year it would be great if we could have more of the same just is there a way we can give less of our money away to the eurozone countries all the best angle america p.s. i also want to win the general election next year thank you. of course you get letters from little boys and girls from all over the world these drones just from here in europe produce this from us ones come from from paris from a little boy who says this well all of his famous friends keep running off and leaving him. it would be great if this new super rich

followed gera deputy you and left fronts we really need a seventy five percent income taxes if we are to stay with the likes of angola find ourselves in the same trouble as demetrius thank you. oh right well this one comes from a little boy who has been on the naughty list in the past but he insists he's going to be good in the future. sounds here's the thing i want to be prime minister again i know there were some problems last time however no i'm ready to step back in this lead to success quite possibly out in a year sincerely silvio berlusconi will have to wait to see if their christmas wishes come true but santa did you get my letter yes was i on the nice list you're a minority list. peter all of a. royal

of the holiday season in full swing the fastest most seems to be taking its toll on the british when it comes to drinking some brats just don't know when to stop and that means a serious strain on the country's emergency services actually sarah firth just wanted to venture out to meet with some of the tipsy regulars. well it's the season to be merry but for some of us perhaps a little to marry the christmas spirit once again upon us brings awareness campaigns a warning people to be careful about how much they drink over the holiday period now in the last couple of years we've seen the figures increasing so the number of alcohol related injuries and we continue in the u.k. to pay too high a price for alcohol abuse now every year is costing the n.h.s. and millions of pounds in dealing with the people who are coming three the hospitals and in the build up to christmas it really puts a strain on services such as the police and searches are ambulances now that's

a very sobering thought indeed we've come to the north of england to new castle to go out on the town and views of the sensitive nature might want to look away now because we've been doing some people getting into the festive spirit a little earlier this year to find out whether they're going to be drinking responsibly but it's a cool night so. very. sorry but it is actually very yeah and there's a thing with the underage drinking she feel that young people hitting responsibly. know. that hello no everyone just gets upset. over a thing that is good for stress. and. drink responsibly yeah. well sometimes i'm not but i. i'm not tonight because of the good night out with a drink response report on the order you heard tell me your school where you can

also. see apart from these guys you will be a prophet of god who want to get more sponsors over the internet are you more so soon people are over the age of twenty five not really both. of the people that we've been speaking to here tonight have. so does the weekend before christmas they have a day nicknamed blackeye friday a reference to the number of fights break out head to excessive drinking this is why a campaign is a calling only government to really tighten up the policies to make sure that we keep seeing these increases in alcohol abuse in the k. they're part the government this year have really tried to target the sale of cheap alcohol but of course many of the problems persist a lot of the young people we were speaking to here tonight saying that they're drinking before they come out since the time that school preloading where you're getting drunk before you even go out so once again in the build up to christmas

we're going to see stuff we're going to see the police services really having to do with these problems part of the reason campaign is a really calling on people to be very careful about how much they drink over the festive period surface. or earlier this year are reported on the case of a burger somali man who had his u.k. citizenship revoked while visiting somalia following that marketing ha she went missing his art he is going to count reports only to appear months later in a new york courtroom charged with terrorism. bhakti how she stands accused of providing material support to somali militant group al-shabaab how she was stripped of his british citizenship earlier this summer over accusations of his involvement with islamist extremists at the time he and his family tried to contest that decision they claim that m i five. to label him an islamic extremist if he

refused to become an informant for british intelligence and spy on the muslim community shortly after his citizenship was revoked he went missing on the outskirts of mogadishu somalia and one of our reporters broke with his parents several months ago when they had no idea where their son was and they were very worried about him apparently all this time he'd been in u.s. custody also on trial along with the ha she faces similar charges or two of the men swedish nationalist so all of these men are not u.s. citizens and yet they ended up here this is not the only case in new u.s. courts against alleged terrorists for acts committed overseas one of the things that many find alarming is how the u.s. finds smuggling foreign nationals in complete secrecy perfectly a lawful often keeping the families of those captured in in the dark for months as far as treating foreign nationals suspected of terrorism the u.s. has a set track record hundreds of people have been through the u.s. prison in guantanamo many of them were subject to torture the chief prosecutor at

guantanamo and a george w. bush told me most of them were not terrorists and due to the extraordinary rendition program all kinds of people would end up there from different countries for different reasons stripped of their rights many human rights organizations have been vocal about a lawful practices that guantanamo and yet it's still open by the way despite president obama's pledges to close the prison. well recently released f.b.i. documents ever revealed that the bureau treated the peaceful occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat but heavily redacted documents show that the agency was carrying out closer violence against members of the occupy wall street movement and even mentions assassinations plots against the activists of those unclear who was behind that now the movement began and puts the pember twenty eleven in the new york city's financial district with protesters allowing corporate greed and economic inequality and about a journalist anna lekas miller says the f.b.i. is making a mistake by fighting with the businesses. they're using

a very broad definition of violence to discuss domestic terrorism because obviously an act of terrorism is doing something that is going to kill a lot of people blowing something something that's far more. terrible and life threatening than just a couple of people assembled in civil protest so i think that they really just ran with the possibility that could get violent and use that to create to manufacture this threat of domestic terrorism because that's really what the f.b.i. has done in a lot of these terrorism cases as you saw with muslim and arab communities with the f.b.i. spying on them a lot of it was really. feeding this information to people who were alleged terrorists but had never done anything and it's that's happening with occupy right now surveillance is happening the whole time meaning that there were informants

planted at occupy the new york and around the country and that the f.b.i. the department of homeland security were basically in partnership with corporate america they're actually working with corporations and the stock exchange and the financial sector to protect them so it's pretty obvious who gets protected this society. well rebranding us certainly nothing new in politics. for used to live in slums now economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. surely aren't we look at how making up new terms helps the u.s. elite score points at the ballot box. later this hour we'll examine the massive protests that have been arranging across europe and then special end of the year feature for you.

what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe you feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorist skull finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection said that the t.s.a. agents couldn't put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs when will they stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist when you go security feels

a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion. speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. your music programs documentaries in spanish what matters to you. a little eternity of angles stories. for you here. the spanish find out more visit.

welcome back you're watching r t but we will see coughing up more protests are expected in egypt as the country awaits the results of a referendum on a new constitution there due out later on tuesday officials have been checking allegations of vote rigging brought forward by the opposition the islamist draft a charter said to have won the support of more than sixty percent of voters the turnout was low estimated at less than a third of the electorate the opposition says the document does not represent all the egyptians and has vowed to keep trying to bring down the constitution peacefully and democratically some experts say the draft ignores the rights of

minorities. i think that the opposition. democracy. then the law. if you look at them obviously in the way that you can see in the united states. and europe. the constitution to be democracy. on the other hand not time to kind of constitutional government she. sort of. unusual or not normal life is not going to be something that should. so it's the rights of the minority. and they have a right to be worried. well earlier my colleague spoke to a representative of the muslim brotherhood freedom and justice party and he had

expressed confidence that time is on the as one side. what's your response to those who say to critics who say the sharia centric constitution betrays their they were punishing your relationship and sidelines the rights of minorities in your country no this is not right at all you can revise the constitution. this is not really present and they have no proof of it and the same time the president declares that if any minority or majority needs to to modify things in this constitution this can be done the thought of parliament figures suggest only around hustle all egyptians in your country support the islamists how do you intend to gain greater backing. we are going to gain. this by by by time you see a lot of people are already entered by what is in the media and our media is

against the islamic. parties but by time people will see how we deal with the problems and i think this willing to use our popularity in the coming. in the coming elections. time for world news updates the pentagon has informed the u.s. congress of its plans to sell for high altitude spy drones just south korea now the deal is a made up to be worth some one point two billion dollars and it would also include training and logistical support congress has the right to block the sale but reports suggest that lawmakers will allow it to go through washington is considered to be south korea's top ally and now a recent agreement between the two sides allows sold nearly triple the range of its ballistic missiles making them capable of reaching nearly all parts of north korea . a man has driven his car into a group of schoolchildren in

a northern chinese province injuring thirteen reports say the driver had attended to cause an explosion but putting firecrackers even a gas tank in the trunk of his car now there's been a number of attacks on schools in recent years in china the latest just two weeks ago which left over a dozen children injured in a knife attack. in a bid to curb street violence mexico city is offering cash toys and electronic gadgets in exchange for illegally obtained guns dozens of rifles and pistols have been handed over by residents so far the amnesty was launched after pardon me a month after a ten year old boy was killed by a stray bullet inside a movie theater. and the political form is often a place where we knew words and phrases are invented in order to soften somewhat the hard truth but as artie's my apartment i ask how the new vocabulary really distracts the public attention away from urgent issues that find out. the art of politics is made up of many thinks. handshakes smiles and

a good arsenal of verbal camouflage have a lot of trouble dealing with reality americans have trouble facing the truth or as the least american comedian george carlin put it euphemistically language that conceals reality poor people used to live in the slums now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner city. and there. they don't have a negative cash flow position. and today america's love affair with semantics has given birth to a new phrase to describe the rich job creators in america basically are on strike increasing taxes on job creators this administration and this president policies are hostile to job creators that are just saying the wealthy who make over two hundred fifty thousand a year if you say a job creator they say well we can't raise their taxes they're the ones or create jobs when in reality when their taxes are higher under bill clinton three times as

many jobs are created the propensity to add softer terms to the english lexicon has surged over the decades particularly when it comes to military related language there's a condition in combat most people know about it it's when fighting person's nervous system has been shot. pressed to its absolute peak and maximum can't take any more inputs the nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap in the first world war that condition was called show today the same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated freeze void of any emotion post-traumatic stress disorder the aftermath of war includes post-traumatic stress disorder for those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. when it comes to war where you have the most damaging euphemisms like when saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say there was collateral damage collateral damage is to me the worst excesses no it's innocent men women children killed in the collateral damage

so that the real estate transactions our soldiers shooting each other has become known as friendly fire kidnapping and transferring a terrorist suspect is called extraordinary rendition and the torture america's war prisoners might endure is referred to as enhanced interrogation in most cases these new words are used by people who try to define an argument or frame in a way that will support the position that they're advocating and during the last u.s. presidential election a certain demographic of voters became otherwise known as without what when from asian voters bother went to twitter at two o'clock today to encourage low information voters think low information voters are stupid people but you say low information voters because it sounds nice although in their defense it could be people who are just too busy you know their lives their family and their work they don't have time to focus on the election until the very last minute and then they vote based on the hairstyle of the candidate running for president as america's political uni continues creating new vocabulary to soften the hard truth

a greater focus could instead be put into asking why so many issues need to be rephrased before being presented to the public george carlin created comedy about the strategy but it was george orwell who first coined a term for it newspeak reporting from new york. r.t. . well twenty twelve comes to an end are two years to you know look at the events that have been dominating the headlines for the past year today we're going to bring you the story of the massive protests that have been shaking europe all year long from the point of view of our news team. it came to the point where if you walked into the studio you knew there was going to be a story about europe and austerity and protests and riots whether it would be spain

or greece or even the u.k. and these were real people in real situations in very scary situations and our correspondents were out there in the midst of it all. so we actually we all sat so still it's over some type of square and i just see the cameraman behind the camera everybody else around me putting gas masks on you for moscow going to see your life before you can say anything you get that horrible taste in your mouth and of course it's the tear gas that's become so synonymous with these demonstrations in greece along with the firing of molotov cocktails and clashes with the place the producers like to see their correspondents in the middle of a crowd which is great but then the crowd the shouting the correspondents try to speak out everyone's very loud you can't hear anything that makes for good television. it's an incredible event covering it is pretty exciting you've got political elements you use the elements and you've got a new course force you've got the tragic human stories of people who are driven to

desperation and pushed onto the streets to protest what they see is their livelihoods just the way over to pay back this most of. the people that think it's about spain's crippling unemployment figures especially amongst the young about the cost of the states the services and then you really get a sense of just how angry it is how desperate people. get the full of love that's doing to the country and to us it's not in the middle of one of these big protest movements when the clashes break out. right coming up after a short break r.t. is james brown takes an in-depth look at russian ballroom club culture pardon me don't go away. we'll.

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